《天佑孩童》是美国黑人女作家托尼·莫里森第一部关于现代黑人的小说。它继承了莫里森将音乐与文学融合的艺术手法,在小说的语言、结构和叙事方面注入音乐元素,拓展了整部小说的美学内涵。但是小说不是单纯地引入黑人音乐的技法,还蕴含了欧美音乐的特征,在追溯儿童创伤的过程中揭示了复杂的人性,阐释了美国黑人合并“双重自我”的新种族观。 “God Bless the Child” is the first African American woman writer Tony Morrison’s novels about modern blacks. It inherits Morrison’s artistic method of integrating music with literature, infuses musical elements in the language, structure and narration of novels, and expands the aesthetic connotation of the whole novel. However, the novel does not simply introduce the techniques of black music, but also contains the characteristics of European and American music. It reveals the complex human nature during tracing the trauma of children and explains the new concept of racial integration of African Americans with “double self”.